Chapter 5

"Achew!"

Buck looked at Lona and Zack looked at Buck. They had all heard the sound of someone sneezing but neither of them were not sure which one of them were the culprit. They silently agreed to dismiss the sound and focus on plotting a course to their destination.

"Achew!"

This time they could not ignore the small and sudden sound. They all knew that none of them had made the sound. Zack suddenly moved quietly to where he thought the source of the sound was. He was not sure how he knew where the sound had come from. It was small and sudden so it would take an experienced ear to track it; it should not have been possible for him to be able to track the source down by the sound alone and yet he was doing it or was he being led by more than the sound? He looked behind a control panel and saw something he did not expect.

"What are you doing here?" Zack said angrily.

Buck and Lona ran to see who the mystery person Zack was talking to was. And there, crouching behind the control panel was a skinny orange Twi'Lek girl. Zack tried to grab her but she quickly ran away and stood some distance away from them.

"Come back here, you little thief!" Zack said.

The Twi'Lek said raising her hands. "I'm sorry for stealing from you guys but you did get your... thing back and anyways he said I could come." She said pointing her little finger at Buck.

Buck opened his mouth to protest but then closed it again after he realised that she was not lying. Lona and Zack were looking at the new Rebel in anger and he smiled back at them apologetically. "Okay... I think this may partly be my fault."

"Partly?" Zack said. "From where I'm standing this is totally your fault! How could you invite this... little thief onto our ship?"

"Hey!" The little girl protested.

"We need to turn around and drop her off before stuff on this ship goes missing." Zack said.

"Hey!" The girl said again, this time folding her arms in front of her defensively.

"No! If we land on Cirasso now, we'll be immediately arrested." Buck said.

"I think Buck is right about that. We'll have to just keep her safe for the time being. Until we figure out what to do." Lona said walking to the girl. When she placed her hand on the little girl's shoulder, the Twi'Lek girl flinched. "Do you want something to eat?" Lona asked sweetly.

The girl nodded.

"My name is Lona by the way. That's Zack and Buck." Lona said, introducing them all.

"My name is Dyna."

/

Canoe hated Cirasso. He hated Tanik. He hated his assignment. He hated the squadron he was in. There was nothing he seemed to like about this situation. Saza Ripper had assembled a squadron of Stormtroopers to help her in her investigations. Apparently, she needed soldiers in case she meets up with any significant Rebel forces. His commanding officer, the aforementioned Saza Ripper, was speaking to a group of Vultans. They looked glum and meek as one of them relayed the events that lead him to be punched in the face. Canoe did not even need to stand as close as he was to eavesdrop on the conversation.

"...and then he punched me in the face!" The Vultan said.

"Did they give any indication where they were going?" Saza asked.

The Vulatn rubbed his chin. "I don't believe they did, the scum! I would not be surprised if they headed for a place as uncouth as the Smuggler's moon!" The Vulatn spat out.

Saza rolled her eyes. The rich aristocrats really did annoy her. "In any case, the trade was illegal. As you now know, the ship belonged to Ru' Bik and we believe these criminals stole it from him." A thought suddenly popped into Saza's head. She had wondered why the Rebels would come to this planet. It is quiet, mundane and has strict laws and has shown no resistance to the Empire. Whatever Rebellion that existed on this planet would be very small and weak. But what if they were only stopping here temporarily? Maybe they had something to do here on this planet before they moved on. "Does this planet have any connections to Ru' Bik?"

Behind his visor, Canoe's eyes went wide with that question. Why had she asked about Ru' Bik? Anything connected to Ru' Bik was most likely connected to Buck in some way. He began sweating but not because of the heat but because of the sudden nervousness he felt.

The Vultan rubbed his chin. "The Bik family. Yes, they own a small business in town but of course the most famous of them is the great Ru' Bik. Now that man is an impres..."

"So he has family on this rock." Saza said cutting the man off.

"Yes, I..."

"Where do they live?" She pressed.

"In the living regions of Tanik., near the town center..." The Vultan said.

While the Vultan was talking, Saza turned her back on him to command her soldiers. "Alright men, we're going into Tanik to follow a lead, my lead! So don't disappoint me!"

With that they began to march away following Saza and leaving the Vulatns who were confused as to what had just transpired.

/

The Twi'Lek girl was eating like it was the last meal that she would ever get. Lona looked at the little girl with glee. She truly loved children; they made her forget all the stress cause by being a Rebel. The door to the room suddenly slid open and Buck walked through. He looked at them quietly for a moment and smiled. He had never seen such happiness in one room. Even in his most peaceful moments, he doubted that he had ever been as happy as Lona or Dyna were at this moment.

Only when Dyna stopped shovelling food into her mouth to look at him did he speak. "You should eat slower, lest you get sick."

"This is the most food that I've had... ever!" Dyna said spitting some of the food out. Her eyes suddenly went wide as she looked at Lona, "do we get to eat this much everyday?"

"Uhm... I'm not sure, hopefully." Lona answered placing her hand on her purple braids.

"We won't if you keep eating us out of spaceship and home." Buck added after Lona. "Where is Zack?"

"In his room." Lona said.

"Is he sulking?"

"Zack never sulks." Lona said reaching out into Dyna's plate of food to steal a little piece.

"He looks like the sulking and brooding type. I mean, he's a man with almost neck length flowing hair." Buck said almost disgustingly.

Lona looked at Buck and noticed how truly different Buck and Zack were from each other. Buck had short black hair; a muscular build, undoubtedly from the hard Stormtrooper training regiment, hard and serious hazel eyes and, even though he now calls himself a Rebel, he is the perfect boy scout. Zack on the other hand, had long flowing black hair, a thin frame, a result of living the hard life of a poor Rebel, and soft and friendly green eyes and, even though he tries to do good, he was kicked out of the boy scouts: The Jedi. Maybe that is why they can't get along, they were different from the outside to their core, she thought to herself. "You should speak to him." She said.

"I don't want to get my head bitten off."

"He won't bite your head off." Lona said.

"And how do you know?" Buck asked.

"Because I had the same conversation with him earlier." Lona said in a matter-of-fact tone.

Buck sighed, "I'll think about it." He said before leaving the room.

/

Di' Bik sat in the living room with the new addition to his family. He playfully tickled the baby's belly to make her giggle. He was happy that his father had accepted his cousin from the Rebels, it would have been shameful to leave such a defenceless member of the Biks to fend for herself. There was a forceful knock on their door that made him jump. His father appeared from the kitchen.

"I'll get it." He said as he passed his son to answer the door.

From the living room he heard his father's surprised voice and a lot of footsteps entering the house. A ginger haired human female walked into the living room followed by a group of Stromtroopers. She gave the signal to her men and two of them went to the other areas of the house. Di' Bik quickly got to his feet.

"We are here on important business, Mr. Bik. I suggest you co-operate." The human female without the standard Stormtrooper uniform said.

"Of course," The elder Vultan said. "In this household we abide the Imperial law."

Saza raised an eyebrow and turned back to look at the Vultan. He had said that they followed Imperial law. Why would he say Imperial law and not just the law. Of course it could be because his house was currently occupied by Imperial soldiers but she suspected he was hiding something.

"Do you really, Mr. Bik?" She said. "Why should we believe you? Even after your brother's transgressions against the Empire?"

"Most of the Biks are loyal to the Empire." The Vulatn said.

Saza Ripper smiled. She had trapped him. Only a few authorised personnel knew of Ru' Bik's arrest and reasons for it and yet, this man did not even ask what 'his brother's transgressions' were before he affirmed his family's loyalty to the Empire. It's as if he knew that Ru' Bik had been arrested, however, unlike the Imperial officers in this house, he was not authorised to know anything about Ru' Bik's capture. The Vultan knew that his brother was a part of the Rebellion and he knew that he had been captured by the Empire. Saza quickly pulled out a blaster from the nearest Stormtrooper and pointed it to the baby on the couch. The teenage Vultan instinctively flinched to the baby while all the troopers placed their hands on their rifle blasters. The baby looked at the weapon and was on the verge of crying.

"Strange, Ru' Bik also had a baby that disappeared during his arrest." Saza said.

"My... my wife had a baby a few months ago. She's at the market" The Vultan said.

Di Bik looked at his cousin nervously. He hated how helpless he felt. This woman was pointing a gun at his baby cousin and there was nothing he could do about it.

"Do you want your child to survive the day?" Saza waited until the elder Vultan nodded. "Then you will tell me what I want to know."

"Truly, i know anything about my brother's dealings," The elder Vultan said placing his hands together in a begging gesture. "Please, don't hurt my family."

Saza smiled. "So your daughter's life is not as important as the Rebels. You seem like a man who would love his son more than anything." Saza said before she turned the barrel of the blaster to Di' Bik. She knew he had him when he unwittingly gasped.

"Please. I beg you! I know nothing!" The Vultan said, growing more desperate.

"My father doesn't know anything!" Di' Bik said in a quiet, angry voice.

Saza looked at the teenage boy. "Then maybe you know something." Saza said as she changed the target from the son to the father.

"I don't know anything either!" Di' Bik angrily shouted.

Saza pulled the trigger and the elder Vultan dropped to his knees, moaning in pain. Di Bik tried to go to his father but a Stromtrooper grabbed his arm and held him in place. He was forced to watch as his father grasped his bleeding shoulder.

"Either you or your father are lying, boy!" Saza said. "No matter because if I don't find out anything, one of you Biks will live to bury the rest of the family." She said before she shot the Vultan teenager's father again.

"Fine! The Rebels came here and I told them about rumours that I have heard. Rumours about a rebel called Kisto who frequents a bar called Ground Haven." Di' Bik said. He was hurt by the disappointment on his father's face. His father had forbidden him from getting involved with Rebels in any way and he had. "Please, that's all I know."

"Good." Saza said as she handed the officer his blaster back. "Captain Robert, arrest them and arrest the mother when she gets here."

"What! But I told you everything I know!" The teenager said.

Saza looked at the boy and smiled evilly. "How can I be sure about that? I need to be completely certain and the only way I can do that is if I take you and your family in for harsh questioning. It's going to be a shame, though. It seems like all of Ru' Bik's family will be in prison. His brother, niece and nephew and his sister-in-law" She said looking at the young teenager. "And I doubt your mother will last long under imperial questioning."

Di' Bik clenched his fists in anger. He had had enough of this woman threatening his family and he was not going to take it any longer. His anger boiled over the brim and he grabbed the blaster pistol from the holster of the nearest Stormtrooper. He aimed at Saza but did not get the chance to even pull the trigger before two shots sped through the air, one striking him in his forearm and the other through his chest, instantly killing him. He fell on to the floor as his father screamed out in anguish at having seen his son killed. The baby began crying out loudly, adding to the father's wails.

Canoe could not believe what he had just witnessed. Saza looked back at him and he swore he saw a smile quickly pass by her lips. It was like she was testing her men, like she knew what would happen. No, she knew what would happen because she caused it and wanted to observe her their reaction. Canoe noticed that his blaster was aimed at where the dead Vultan boy had been standing and his finger was all too eager to pull the trigger. He dropped his blaster, feeling shaken by the thought that if his comrades had not taken the shot, he would have. He now knew that his instinct would have made him shoot down a teenage Vultan and now Saza Ripper knew it too. He and the other men had passed her test but he did not know if that was a good thing or not.

"Should I still arrest them ma'am." Captain Robert said, his voice giving away the fact that he was also shaken by the events that had transpired.

Saza remained quiet for a moment before she finally spoke. "No. I have a hunch that the only person in this house who knew anything is... dead." She calmly said looking at the body of Di' Bik. "Ready the men to go to the Ground Haven bar."

/

Buck knocked on the door that lead into Zack's room. He waited for two minutes before he knocked again. He waited again but realised that he would not get an answer anytime soon. He rolled his eyes in annoyance before he opened the door to check if Zack was in. He was not expecting the door to open but to his surprise it did.

He peeked inside the room. The light source was off but the room was not completely dark. A blue light faintly illuminated everything that it was strong enough to reach, including Zack who was sitting with his legs crossed on the floor. His face was focused, more focused than Buck had ever seen, and was washed with the blue light. Buck looked at what he was focusing on and saw the source of the blue light. In front of Zack, a cube floated and spun on its own axis in the air. Above the cube was a hologram of a man doing somersaults with a lightsaber in his hand. Buck recognised the lightsaber which was strange because he had only ever seen one lightsaber. He realised where he knew the lightsaber from. The lightsaber had a feint green hue with a halo of the same colour near the hilt in the hologram. This was the same lightsaber Zack has.

Buck did not get a chance to see the rest of the hologram before it suddenly stopped and pieces that were once invisible in the dark to Buck suddenly began flying towards the levitating box. The pieces combined with the box to make a 3d hexagonal before it dropped into Zack's waiting hand.

"Enjoy spying on me?" Zack said looking at Buck.

"I wasn't spying." Buck said. He stepped into Zack's room as normal light returned to the room, illuminating everything. "What was that thing? Some kind of holo-disk?"

"Wouldn't you like to know." Zack said before he put away the device. "What are you doing here?"

"I guess... I'm here to... talk?"

Zack sighed, "Lona spoke to you too, huh?"

Buck shrugged.

"Fine, sit." Zack said offering him a seat.

Buck sat cautiously while Zack sat on his messy, unmade bed. "If we're going to do this then we need to trust each other. Meaning fewer secret meetings and conversations, huh?"

Zack reluctantly agreed by nodding. "Fine, Lona and I will let you in on everything we do."

Buck was surprised at how easy it was to get a truce with shook hands as a sign of peace.

"I guess we should share one secret we've been keeping from each other to cement our alliance." Buck jokingly said.

Zack smiled, "I agree." He reached for the hexagonal item he had put away. "I hope I don't grow to regret this." He mumbled to himself. "You asked me earlier what this was," Zack said holding up the hexagonal box that Buck had seen him watching a hologram on. "It's called a Holocron. The Jedi used these to store and pass on knowledge of our... their Order."

"A Holocron." Buck said. He appreciated that Zack had taken the first step in proving that he would try harder to trust him. He did not really expect him to go through with it but he had and now he felt the pressure was on him. "I guess now it's my turn." Buck said nervously. He only really had one secret, one secret that he was very ashamed of. "My secret involves the time before we first met. I... I was, as you know, in the squadrons tasked with capturing Ru' Bik. I came to his room and I... I had just taken out a few Rebels..."

"You don't have to rub it in." Zack said not liking where this was going.

"... I stepped into Ru' Bik's room... well at the time I didn't know it was his room... I didn't even see her... she came so fast that I... that I..." Buck put his head in between his hands. It was almost like he was re-living the events of that day as he was speaking. His heart raced, he felt like he had on his white armour and all his senses where heightened. He raked his fingers through his short hair as he looked up again at Zack. He was not sure why he was doing this, why he was sharing this secret with Zack of all people. It was the only secret he had, he thought to himself. It was the only secret he had to tell, the only secret that he wanted to tell. He needed to get it off his chest, out of his mind and erase it from his conscience. "I killed Ru' Bik's wife."

Zack was stunned. For the first time since he had met Buck he was at a loss of words. "What? I thought... I thought she was in custody along with..."

Buck shook his head in shame.'"Get out." Zack said. "Get out!"

Buck left the room without saying a word.

/

Saza walked into Ground Haven. The Stormtroopers marched in and flanked her on either side with their blasters raised. The Ithorian who was wiping the bar counter with a cloth immediately stopped what he was doing and watched the newcomers to his bar closely.

"We are looking for a criminal called Kisto. If any one of you... no, I mean one of you knows who he is and no one is leaving here until I find him." Saza said. "Men, make sure no one leaves and check the identities of everyone in this bar. If they even have a record, arrest them."

There was a sudden volley of shots in the bar. Canoe was horrified to see that the man who had stood next to him was now dead with a smouldering hole in his chest. The bar was suddenly engulfed in chaos as blaster fire was exchanged between the Stormtroopers and some of the bar patrons. Canoe took one man out and ran to find cover, followed by other Troopers. They crouched behind a pillar of the building while they exchanged fire with their enemies. Those who did not move fast enough were quickly taken down, Rebel and Imperial soldier alike except for one, Inquisitor Ripper.

Saze had already ignited her lightsaber by the time the first shot had been fired. She deflected some of the shot as she spotted her targets. She suddenly ran forward and anyone in her way who was not wearing a white suit of armour, armed or not, was cut down. She saw one of the Rebels bravely get out of his hiding place and fire at her with his handgun. She advanced on him while deflecting his shots and cut his hand off before she severed his Vultan head from his shoulders.

Canoe and his companions shot a few more Rebels that were on Saza's blind side. The Trooper's superior officer ordered them to cover him while he moved forward to take out a few more Rebels. As soon as the officer ran out of the hiding place he was blown apart. Canoe risked a look out to see what had happened to him and saw that there was an Ithorian with a canon rifle blaster. He ducked in time as the Ithorian shot at where his head had been and blown a large chunk off the pillar they were hiding behind. The force and vicinity of the explosion was enough to push Canoe back until his back rested on his fellow Trooper. They helped him get up into a crouching position again.

"Keep them occupied, I'm going to go around and surprise them." Canoe said.

"I'll come with you." One of them said. They secretly slipped out the other way while his partners feigned an offensive.

Kisto jumped behind the counter and shot at the Stromtroopers along with his Ithorian bar keep friend. He was impressed with his weapon as he was keeping a group of Stormtroopers who had congregated behind a pillar at bay; in fact he was slowly finishing them off. The pillar they were hiding behind would soon no longer exist if he kept firing at it with his powerful blaster. Kisto noted that in general the Strormtroopers were scattered. Someone had panicked, whether it was a Rebel or a Cirasso criminal he did not know but the sudden blaster shot had disorientated the Stormtroopers giving them a fighting chance. He shot down the stragglers in white while noticing the woman who seemed to be at the centre of the action. Whether it was because of the fact that she was beautiful... for a human or because she wielded an unusual weapon, he did not know. He shot at her while she seemed preoccupied with killing a rebel that he knew well. To his surprise she deflected the shot and killed his Rebel friend, seemingly on one movement of her red bladed lightsaber. It almost seemed like she knew he was going to shoot at her before he did. She began running at his position with her laser blade trailing on the ground behind her. Kisto shot at her a few times but once again she effortlessly used her lightsaber to deflect his shots.

"Incoming!" Kisto said, trying to shift the Ithorian's attention from the Stormtroopers to the more threatening human woman with a lightsaber.

The Ithorian refocused his efforts on the inquisitor and fired at her. Saza placed her blade in between herself and the cannon shot, hoping to deflect it. Her lightsaber was able to scatter most of the energy but it was not enough as the force of the shot knocked it out of her hands and pushed her to the floor. She was able to roll away in time to avoid getting hit by Kisto's follow up shots. She hid behind an upturned table with her back to it. A sudden sense of dread came upon her and she knew she would have to move if she wanted to live. She rolled away a few seconds before the table was blown to splinters. She was fairly close to the explosion and therefore did not escape unscathed but at least she escaped with her life. She slowly got up as the ringing in her ears caused by the explosion began to subside.

"You can't hide from me, girlie!" The Ithorian said after blowing up the table the Imperiall lady with the sword was hiding behind. Kisto was frustrated as the mystery woman was now out their line of sight but at least his friend had made space for some of the Rebels to come over to the counter and use the back exit. He saw his Rebel companions running towards them while dodging blaster fire from the still standing Stormtroopers. One of them saw Saza was down and went to finish her off.

Saza noted a Rebel coming for her with his blaster aimed at her. In a situation like this and without a lightsaber, she was next to helpless. The Vultan was about to shoot her but he was shot down instead. She looked at the direction of her saviour and saw two Stormtroopers moving through the shadows.

Canoe's partner had just saved Saza by shooting her attacker. She looked disorientated on the other side of the bar, moving on her hands and knees. He noticed that she did not have her lightsaber with her. He looked around and saw her light saber. It was a straight, black handle with a black arch that started at the top of the hilt and curved down to the bottom, like a sabre guard. Her lightsaber was lying on the floor.

Saza saw someone coming from the corner of her eye and she knew it was no friend of hers. She was in trouble again.

Canoe had seen a few Rebels run past him, no doubt to regroup with their comrades. He took a deep breath as what he was about to do was madness. He exhaled as he ran out of his place of relative safety. He slid down on the ground as a volley of shots passed over head and using his sliding momentum, kicked the lightsaber to Saza while simultaneously shooting a Rebel that was still jumping over the bar counter at the back.

The lightsabe rolled right next to Saza and she ignited it before savagely sliced the Rebel that was coming for her in half, diagonally. Canoe came to join her in her hiding place while dodging Rebel fire. He looked at his commanding officer and he saw from her face that she was mad. She was worse and more terrifying than the night she was hunting him.

"These Rebels are dead!" She said, foaming at the mouth with anger. She jumped out from the safety of their cover and deflected a furious swarm of fire and changed their angle so that they deflected back to the Rebel group hiding ehind the bar counter. She was forced to jump back to the safer area to dodge the Ithorian's cannon shot. A small explosion erupted where she had been as the Ithorian missed her.

Another comrade had fallen. Kisto was visibly worried. The Stormtroopers had recovered from the sudden fire fight and were now becoming a formidable force and they had to deal with the mysterious lady with the red laser sword. She appeared and was able to use their own fire power against them as she deflected one of their shots into the chest of a Rebel.

"Kisto! You need to get out of here!" The Ithorian barman said.

"I can't leave you guys here!" Kisto said shooting down a Stormtrooper and ducking down to avoid the fire of another.

"Out of all of us you know the most about Rebel operations." The Ithorian said in a deep voice. "If you're captured it would be very bad."

Kisto bit his lower lip hard enough to draw blood. The Ithorian was right but he hated to leave his comrades behind. "Fine." He reluctantly said.

"Take some back up!" The Ithorian said before firing again and taking down the pillar that had Stormtroopers hiding behind. The pillar crushed the Stormtroopers who did not get away from it fast enough. Those who were fast enough found themselves without sufficient cover and were easily picked off by the Rebels.

Saza peeked and saw the escaping Rebels. "Lieutenant," she said getting the attention of Canoe. "Some of the Rebels are looking to escape. Take some men and stop them." Canoe nodded and was about to go when she stopped him by grabbing his arm, "don't disappoint me Canoe or you won't live to regret it."

Canoe nodded fearfully before going out the way they had came in. Saza assessed the situation. Her men had formed an impressive offense and would soon overwhelm the Rebels. They would win this skirmish but she wanted to kill the Ithorian herself. There were five Rebels left now. She knew she could not get close to them with her lightsaber, not with the Ithorian standing guard and not without a sufficient distraction. She could throw something at him. She looked around and saw multiple upturned tables that she could use. No, they were too large and she was depleted of energy. She would need something smaller. She looked at the advancing Stormtroopers and smiled evilly to herself.

The Ithorian was probably the only reason why the Troopers were not advancing faster on them. He knew that if they were to escape with their lives they needed to distract the Troopers long enough to escape. To his sudden surprise one of the Stromtroopers unnaturally levitated into the air and flew towards him at great speed. He ducked down to avoid the strangely flying soldier. He landed in front of them and although he shot a few of them down, he had no chance of surviving as the Rebels riddled him in laser holes. The Ithorian got up and saw two small pillars on either side of his head. He was confused as there should be no pillars on the bar counter. He followed the pillars up with his eyes and saw them fuse into a slender body holding a red laser blade. The last thing he ever saw was Saza swinging her lightsaber down to cut his elongated head in half.

/

Canoe ran outside in time to see three Rebels mount their hover-bikes. "Open fire!" He commanded the two men he had bought with him. They all began shooting at the moving hover bikes. One of them caught fire and swerved out of control as it crashed into another. Kisto was forced to leave behind his Vultan friends. He knew that if he stopped he would be killed or worse... captured. He disappeared in the distance and was already formulating plans to get off the planet.

Canoe looked at the wreckage. One of the Vultans had survived. He and his companions dragged the man away from the wreckage and back into Ground Haven bar. The bar had quietened down, there was no sound of gunfire so he knew that the battle was over and from the state he had left the battle he was certain that they had won. To his lack of surprise he saw the Stormtroopers stand by, either nursing their injuries or checking on the Rebels.

Ground Haven bar looked a mess compared to how it looked before the fire fight broke out. There were broken glasses, different coloured alcoholic drinks were spilled on the floor, dead bodies of, Rebel and Stromtrooper alike, littered the floor.

Saza was bent over the body of a Rebel, checking for signs of life. She realised that the Rebel was dead. She let her excitement for battle get the better of her again and now she had no one to question about the Rebels who had REu' Bik's ship and possibly a Jedi. The mysterious lightsaber wielder seemed get further away from her now.

Canoe cautiously approached the Inquisitor. He remembered her last order and how he would not live to regret failing her. "Ma'am," he began. "One of the Rebels escaped but..." Canoe was cut off when he suddenly could not breath. He clutched desperately at his throat but there was nothing there. There was nothing to grab and remove so that he could breathe again. He simply could not breathe.

"Ma'am, he did capture one of the Rebels." One of the Stromtroopers who held the struggling Rebel Vultan said seeing how desperate the situation was for Canoe.

Canoe could suddenly breathe again. He coughed before breathing in thankful short breaths.

"Maybe you're not totally useless, Lieutenant." Saza said looking menacingly at her new Rebel prisoner.

"I'll never tell you anything Imperial scum!" The Vultan said before he spat at her shoes.

Saza smiled. "Oh, you will tell me everything I want to know." She said before activating her lightsaber. "In fact, you're going to sing like a bird..."